Rebecca Maryan on research, archives and travel. Doing a PhD in Medieval History means I get to travel to lots of different libraries and archives all over the UK. I spend a lot of time in Oxford, Cambridge and London, enjoying the excellent wealth of material housed in beautiful surroundings. I’ve also been as far …

First year student Hannah Smith explains what’s so great about linguistics. When I first started university, I would never in a million years have expected to find myself writing for a blog entitled ‘study what you love’ on the topic of linguistics! When I researched degrees in my subject area I loved the holistic approach …

Nottingham’s Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies, has always loved and will always love Vikings — and that’s why she studied them and continues to do so. Why do I love the Vikings? Let me recount the reasons. They were bold and heroic. They built and sailed efficient and beautiful ships. They crossed the Atlantic …

Dr Danny McLaughlin, Associate Professor in Physiology. As a teenager in Scotland my choice of subjects was considered slightly unusual. Not many people twinned two sciences with two languages at O grade (GCSE to those of you from the ‘English’ education system). Fewer still continued with a language (Italian) and two sciences (Biology and Chemistry) …

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If you study what you love, your degree will feel less like hard work and more like a series of fascinating questions.
Academics, students, alumni and employers will be sharing stories on this blog to help you see where your passion for a subject can take you.